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buggery ([personal profile] buggery) wrote2005-01-18 07:47 pm

::sigh:: Oh, the missed opportunities...

Really, DC, who MAKES your assignment decisions? A hat full of little slips of paper? A trained guppy? An iron?

From Jennifer Contino's interview with Nightwing: Year One co-writer Scott Beatty at PULSE webzine:

    THE PULSE: Many people miss the classic Batman and Robin stories featuring Bruce and Dick. What do you think it was about their chemistry that made their stories together have such strong memories for so many different comic fans?

    BEATTY: It's funny you should mention that. Chuck and I were chatting it up recently about how much we'd love to work on such a title. When Scott and Andy emailed us with the same idea as a possible pitch to DC, we were weirded out by the odd synchronicity...but just how PERFECT it could be. I'm uncertain it would happen, but we'd all jump at the opportunity to explore some "untold" tales starring the original Dynamic Duo.

Now if this was the team who were going to be on the forthcoming DC All-Stars: Batman and Robin title, I might actually feel compelled to pick it up, rather than to stay as far away as possible. (I lack the energy tonight for another rant about Frank Millerfucktard and his hatred of Robins, but yeah.) Just as well, I suppose, as long as my pull-list has gotten...

[identity profile] aelita.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
*muffled cursing* You got to be kidding me. They could've... and they gave it to... damn. Why?! I just don't get it.

[identity profile] maelithil.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
ARGH! That is just *twisting* the knife in the wound, DC. Thank you.

*hates*
ext_6171: Nightwing pressing the back of a hand melodramatically to his brow (actually unconscious; cropped comic panel) (woobies)

[identity profile] buggery.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I can't imagine how Frank is going to restrain himself from killing Dick off or just breaking the 'Duo up with a big argument.

Maybe he'll turn Dick female...
ext_6171: Nightwing pressing the back of a hand melodramatically to his brow (actually unconscious; cropped comic panel) (Batman (Te made this))

[identity profile] buggery.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
And they seem to think it's such wonderful news, that fans are going to be happy at the prospect of Dick (and his relationship with Bruce) in Millerfucktard's hands. It's not far off from if John Wayne Bobbit was announcing the good news that he was setting himself up as a one-man rape crisis hotline...

[identity profile] maelithil.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
I know, dammit. It's one of the reasons why the DC Boards are officially off-limits for me. They are. all. SQUEEING.

It's... insane.

[identity profile] aelita.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe he'll turn Dick female...

Hey, that's a great idea. Or even better, he can kill Dick off in the most humiliating way possible and give Batman a female sidekick... oh, wait. *cringe* Damn, I knew I erased those memories for a reason. Now I have to go scrub my brain again.

*happily rereads Nightwing 101 (heh, sounds like a lesson)*
ext_6171: Nightwing pressing the back of a hand melodramatically to his brow (actually unconscious; cropped comic panel) (Fly)

[identity profile] buggery.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Nightwing 101 (heh, sounds like a lesson)

If there were someplace I could sign up to take that course...

[identity profile] aelita.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
Preferably with visual aids... lots and lots of visual aids...
ext_6171: Nightwing pressing the back of a hand melodramatically to his brow (actually unconscious; cropped comic panel) (Dick (my fandom loves))

[identity profile] buggery.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
If it does what DC hopes and gets people reading the comics who weren't before... well, they'll go to a comicshop looking for more, and with any luck be steered towards the mainstream-continuity monthlies by the fan behind the counter.

Meanwhile, at least Millerfucktard won't be spewing his issues all over anything related to the titles we'll all be reading. That's something, I suppose.
ext_6171: Nightwing pressing the back of a hand melodramatically to his brow (actually unconscious; cropped comic panel) (fanartists love Dick)

[identity profile] buggery.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
And field trips, and guest speakers, and a hands-on practicum...